last night I was thinking ALOT about lucid dreaming and hoping to do one. In my sleep I had the oddest dream. I was at school, and for some reason we were doing a unit on lucid dreaming. (For those who don't know, a unit is like a chapter.) In order to study it, we were hooked up to a machine and we went inside a lucid dream. This is the inception-style part. Inside that lucid dream at school (Not an actual dream) I was able to dream control, summon objects etc. I woke up soon after summoning orange boxes within my dream at school. Is it still considered lucid dreaming and dream control if I am inside a lucid dream within a non lucid dream???????

Dreaming about lucid dreaming is actually very common. Just as you dream about being in your favorite show, you dream about something you do or think about on a regular basis. I once had a dream where I was in my room discussing the concept of different levels (dreams within dreams) with the characters from Inception. I also have dreams where I talk to my DCs about lucid dreaming. In none of these I actually become lucid.

Your dream is very complicated but I don't think it counts as gaining lucidity since you didn't actually become consciously aware you were dreaming. It sounds like it was just a part of the dream's story.

This wouldnt really count as a lucid dream as the other said its part of a non lucids dream story and you arent truely lucid, but it is a very good sign as this kind of thing can end up triggering a person to became truely lucid in their dream and it also may mean your subconciousness could give you little prods to help you became lucid (eg a DC could well ask you if you are dreaming or not?).

Anyway its great that what you are trying to do is infiltrating into your dreams. Best wishes in having a lucid soon.

This happened to me last night-I was talking to an old teacher about lucid dreaming outside in my street-then I started flying around my house to the tree in the field at the back of it. Best flight control I've had in a dream yet except I wasn't lucid! XD should have been a dead giveaway but oh well

i had also a dream the other night about lucid dreaming and wow i'm dumb at the moment where i did a reality check my hand went through the wall and i just though it was a hallucination because i had not slept in a while so i walked off wtf is wrong with me (like jonsnowld a dead giveaway and i did not even think about it)I only just thought about it now